Hardware and Environments Test Engineering Manager
Core
Lead a team of hardware and environmental test engineers to deliver fully tested and qualified components, developmental units, and spacecraft for space superiority missions.
Role type
Manager, Hardware and Environments Test Engineering
Builds
Autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors
Domain
Space systems / Defense
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Team leadership and mentorship, Test process ownership and execution, Capacity planning and resource balancing, Design for test integration, Automation and efficiency improvement, Facility and equipment management
Preferred skills
Master's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering, Test ground support equipment design, Stand up test and launch facilities
Technologies
Test equipment, Environmental chambers, Vibration tables, Thermal vacuum chambers, ESD sensitive component testing tools
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a high-performing team of test engineers, Manage cross-team test coordination, Own execution of test for components, subsystems, and vehicles, Drive load capacity planning and resource balancing, Provide inputs to Integrated Master Schedule and engineering reviews, Champion efficiency and automation initiatives
Seniority
Manager, strategic oversight with hands-on leadership